Switch

[Drunk Monk]

First, check out this trailer:
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This whole film is like this. There's some sort of plot about art theft and reuniting these two pieces of a treasured Ming diptych, but the rest is just absurd action, totally nonsensical, like a music video. As much as I hate to make Hollywood actor analogies, Andy Lau is kind of like Harrison Ford was a few years ago to me - he's had some amazing roles, but is a mediocre actor at best - he just got super lucky with casting and now he's a superstar. I guess he sings well but I hate Cantopop. Switch was a big budget flick that got terrible reviews but still managed to do okay in China. It has lots of bad CGI, awesome villain lairs, amazing cityscape scenes (especially Dubai), crazy crazy leaps of logic, way too many characters to follow (it's no use as many of them just appear for a scene and never come back), romantic scenes that don't go anywhere, and super cheesey villains (ninjas, sumo wrasslers, white-haired Yakuza leaders, Brits, hotties in silver bikinis on skates with switchblades that flick out from their elbows). It's very old school HK film-making, totally unapologetic. This film makes no sense whatsoever.

But it's totally DOOM worthy. It's DOOM worthy because it's so bad, it's awesome. I'd share it at our next DOOM gathering, but I only have it on DVD-9 (Hong Kong platform) and I don't know if any of you can play that.

Not only is there a sword fight, but it's western fencers. I don't know why. But it was great.

[Drunk Monk]

For our brothers who couldn't make it, let's play "And then there was the scene...wth?"

And then there was the scene towards the end when Lau comes into the villain's lair and there's a gal wrapped in cellophane like piece of meat at a butcher shop with a strategically-placed large barcode strip. She starts breaking her way out of the plastic wrap as Lau walks by. wth?